The format for this split’s championship is detailed below. It’s divided into a visual representation and a text based one. If you have any questions about the format please join our discord (found here) and ask them in the CSGO text channel.

Start date: Monday 16th OCT

Signups: Opening in the next few days

The Format

Stage One: Swiss Qualifiers

The NUEL Swiss (N-Swiss) system

Our system works by matching teams who have a similar win/loss record against each other. Over the course of the Swiss you will face increasingly better matched opponents. Each win will earn you a point and the teams with the most points will qualify for the double elimination bracket. (We’ll be publishing a more detailed explanation of this system for those of you who want to know more but the above is sufficient to compete).

Tiebreaks

To decide a tiebreak in final standings we use a system which calculates your “Opponent Match Win Percentage” score. Put simply, this generates a rating for your team based on the difficulty of opponents you had to face over the course of the qualifiers. The team with the higher rating, who therefore beat better opponents, will be awarded the higher placement.

Stage Two: Championship Bracket & Continued Swiss

Championship Bracket – Double Elimination

The top 16 teams from the qualifiers will compete in a double elimination bracket to determine the National Champions. The first week of elimination games will be Bo1. From the second week on wards winner’s bracket will be Bo3 and loser’s bracket will be Bo1. The grand finals will be a weighted Bo5.

Continued Swiss

Those teams who did not make top 16 will continue to play in the N-Swiss.